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2000: Volume 31

Social Policy in the South: Revisioning the Agenda

Volume 31 Number 4 October 2000 Edited by: Sarah Cook and Naila Kabeer

Worldwide changes in the context of social policy have been set in process by a combination of forces, including globalisation, economic liberalisation and transitions to democracy.

These are leading to new patterns of inequality and insecurity that in turn reveal the limitations of state-driven welfare systems and the need to involve other institutions in social provision. Social policy needs rethinking to adjust to these new realities.

This Bulletin is based on work undertaken in the initial stage of a three-year research programme on social policy in a number of transitional, emerging and poor countries.

Questioning Partnership: The Reality of Aid and NGO Relations

Volume 31 Number 3 July 2000 Edited by: Alan Fowler

This issue, prepared by IDS alumni, takes a critical look at the concept of ‘partnership’ in today’s official aid system. It does so from the perspective of non-governmental organisations involved in third world development (NGOs) that are directly or indirectly related to aid thinking, policy, practice and financing.

Men, Masculinities and Development: Politics, Policies and Practice

Volume 31 Number 2 May 2000 Edited by: Andrea Cornwall and Sarah C. White

From work in the reproductive health field involving men, to a concern about rising male unemployment and gender-based violence, men and masculinities are now very firmly on the gender and development agenda (GAD). Yet the shift towards considering men’s identities and relations as gendered subjects raises challenges that lie at the heart of GAD as a political project. This issue draws together a range of perspectives from people involved in the debate. 

Accountablity Through Participation: Developing Workable Partnership Models in the Health Sector

Volume 31 Number 1 January 2000 Edited by: Andrea Cornwall, Henry Lucas and Kath Pasteur

In recent years there has been a major shift in attitudes from viewing communities as passive recipients of health care, to adoption of new approaches seeking to make more of the potential that active community participation might offer for enhanced accountability and improved responsiveness of services. This issue explores the challenges that have been thrown up as a result of this change of emphasis.

1999: Volume 30

Politics in Development: Essays in Honour of Gordon White

Volume 30 Number 4 October 1999

The articles in this Bulletin arise from a conference held to honour the memory of IDS Fellow, Gordon White. Spanning a wide range of subjects, the Bulletin can be divided into four substantive areas: politics in the state, civil society, welfare and globalisation. There is a focus on East Asia, particularly China, reflecting Gordon White’s own interests and work in the region. The articles are united by their links to one or both meanings of ‘politics in development’.